I have to agree. Given that there are only six episodes, I'm not sure there was room or need for a start-from-scratch origin story. But hey, this is prestige television, where the seasons keep getting shorter and the gaps between them longer. Maybe this is meant more as a mini-series and it will have a satisfying conclusion, but not holding my breath.

If I had an upvote, it would be yours.

No, they'll get more venture capital

As an infant, his family probably just stayed at the Vdara in Vegas and the concept burned into his mind.

I'll see myself out...

My AI PC will sit right under my 3D TV

Having a peanut allergy myself, I'm curious in how things are turning out for your kid. How old? How long has the therapy been underway? Is the expectation that there will be complete de-sensitivity or just that you don't always have to run around with an epi-pen and lots of Benedryl? Thanks for sharing

I spent a few years living in Asia. What I heard there was that Australians and Americans were the ones that seemed to have the peanut allergy more than anyone. My uninformed opinion is that the allergy situation (and other stuff) is caused not just by what is being consumed processed foods, but what is not eaten. People "trust" that food coming out of a box or can has been prepared to "standards" and is "safe", so they don't feed their kids actual food until much later in life, if ever. Kids grow up familiar with and develop preferences to the stuff, affecting body composition and their immune systems. My experience is consistent with this.

Fortunately, my daughter and son-in-law are smarter than my parents, and started feeding my granddaughter a broad assortment of actual foods as soon as she could eat. She's developed tastes for spicy, savory, etc. as opposed to sweet, overly salty and fatty. At 1.5 yrs her stats are great in terms of height and maintaining a healthy weight, and hasn't shown any food sensitivity. So far, so good...

Similar boat as you, but flipped (can't eat peanuts, but can eat most other nuts). Generally, I don't have a problem with being around people eating peanuts. The main exception was when I was on a plane and a seatmate would finish their bag of peanuts, followed by ritual of slapping their hands together in front of them and spreading peanut dust all over. That sucked, and in that confined space, it was a problem. I don't feel too bad about peanuts going away on planes.

As far as Nestle's $6k peanut pill goes, sounds like they were competing with a snack any parent could buy at Trader Joe's. There may be value in early intervention and desensitizing via a pharmaceutical controlled dose, but it's not $6k worth of value.

I think a decent amount of the issue is the disconnect between your movements in AR versus your body's movement (or lack thereof) IRL. If you are sitting on a cockpit in VR and the VR is just completing your field of vision, that's one thing. If you are walking/running around in a 3-dimensional VR landscape, that's another. I don't know how this gets fixed with improvements in refresh rate or resolution.

Also, most current devices have the discomfort of having a device hanging in front of your face which your neck has to support. This seems far more fixable (i.e. smaller tech and/or moving some of the processing/battery/etc. to something you can clip onto a belt).

Marketers and data aggregators.

Yah, there is also the flip side of "hashing will fix everything" - it is easy to tweak a video enough so that it will produce a different hash. It would be trivial to create a webservice that would automate this process for the unwashed masses.

That doesn't mean they are not trying.

I've been using Linux Mint (Cinnamon flavor) for about three years now as my daily driver. It is pretty damn rock solid. I don't have to deal with constant rebooting for Windows Update. Docker runs easily. I can use Visual Code and Runner to work with code. And yet... My job requires remote meetings, which means Zoom and Teams. This is where stuff starts to go sideways...

In trying to get wireless headphones mic, is near impossible. Pulse Audio, BlueZ are run by volunteers, and while their work is admirable, it is incomplete. You simply cannot get a set of headphones like Sony WH-1000XM4 to work at anything more than HSP quality. This isn't obscure hardware. The effort appeared to end up in mess of vitriol with no solution. I ended up buying a USB audio adapter which works but is clunky.

Even with basic UI, there are challenges. Zoom uses QT, and the application authors did not bother to scale properly from high-DPI display. And yes, you can do things like set the QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS environment variable, but DPI displays are not a new thing. Doing stuff like this should be unnecessary.

So yes, there are workaround for everything. But I don't see putting this down in front of a Mac user and expecting great things to happen. Even if the dearth of native Linux applications in the media creation space wasn't an issue.

Heh - I'm thinking, given "Lamps Plus Plus" that showed up in the episode, it'd probably be "Customer Experience Plus Plus".

Fair enough. I probably should have clarified that there is simple, legal, solution. Downloading a torrent of a pirated copy of a movie is illegal, and it is stealing. You and I may agree that DRM is bullshit, but that doesn't allow either of us to just take that content by whatever means we can, and do whatever we want with it, against the wishes of the creators of that content. Even if is an Evil Corporation.

Assume there is a restaurant that serves the best Wagyu bone-in rib eye in the state, but they require a sports jacket. Not wanting to buy a sports jacket to dine anywhere, I have two choices - break into the restaurant and steal what I want, or I can find an alternative (go eat Thai food instead, pick up a steak at a butcher and see what damage I can do to a $30 slab of meat, etc.). Breaking in is illegal, eating something else, somewhere else, is a legitimate option. If said restaurant ends up with more empty tables than they want, maybe they will relax their policy. Otherwise, I will have to live life without their best-in-class rib eye, and I'll survive. Waiting for somebody to establish a made-up "right" for me to dine anywhere I want, dressed however I want, is futile.